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Vincent Roy-Di Piazza @roydipiazza.bsky.social · 6d

Finally received my own copy of this classic banger — just in time for the weekend 📚

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 12d

Just out!

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Girlhood in Eighteenth-Century Britain: The Working Girl

This book draws on a wide range of sources to provide the first comprehensive account of the experience of eighteenth-century working girlhood across all regions of Britain, examining the lifecycle st...

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 13d

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Nu söker vi föreståndare inom UUniFI – sista ansökningsdag 24 oktober - Uppsala universitet

www.uu.se

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Gustav's Hand @gustavshand.bsky.social · Jun 23

Project manager @mikaelalm.bsky.social presents the project as an exemple of a research infrastructure project at "Things That Matter: Material & Culture in/for the Digital Age" at Bern University. What work goes into the creation of a digitised collection?

Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · Jun 23

We're off! Five-day workshop at Bern University with "Things That Matter: Material & Culture in/for the Digital Age" in collaboration between Bern, Durham, Groningen, Tübingen & Uppsala #enlight #matariki

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Martin Andersson @martinhist.bsky.social · Jun 19

Vi söker doktorand i agrarhistoria!

Vi söker någon som vill utforska den ekonomiska ojämlikheten i 1500-talets Sverige och Finland. Utifrån förmögenhetsskatteregister kartlägger vi alla hushålls förmögenhet från 1571 och framåt.

Sök senast den 17 augusti!

www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

Utdrag ur Älvsborgs lösen 1571, visar en sida med ett antal hushåll i norra Västergötland och vad de ägde i form av koppar, silver, kor, hästar, får, med mera.

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Nättidningen Svensk Historia @svenskhistoria.bsky.social · Jun 18

Kungliga biblioteket återskapar biblioteksmiljön från herrgården Säbylund, med 4000 böcker och unika föremål. Samlingen, som har anor från 1700-talet, får nytt liv på Roggebiblioteket i Strängnäs. svenskhistoria.se/biblioteksmi... #svhist

Biblioteksmiljö från 1700-talet återskapas - Nättidningen Svensk Historia

Kungliga biblioteket återskapar biblioteksmiljön från herrgården Säbylund, med 4 000 böcker och unika föremål. Samlingen, som har anor från 1700-talet, får nytt liv på Roggebiblioteket i Strängnäs.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · Jun 3

Master's workshop continues! Thesis on two case studies on claims of compensation against Lübeck in the 16th century (chaired by @mouseemperor.bsky.social), and I just learned that OpenAI's online ChatGTP function recognises Middle Low German elements in Early New German texts.

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · May 23

Thrilled to share that the anthology "Från handskrift till digitalt kulturarv: Perspektiv på specialsamlingar", that I’ve co-edited with @sjokvist.bsky.social has been published.

It's available both in #openaccess and in print: www.diva-portal.org/smash/record....

#bookhistory #specialcollections

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · May 29

Preparations for next week's 'Early Modern Christmas' at @uu.se: the Department of History's annual Master's Workshop, with six theses (by second-year students) and seven thesis proposals (by first-year students) from the Early Modern Master's Programme. Fabulous!

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Gustav's Hand @gustavshand.bsky.social · May 23

Ny publikation med kapitel av projektets @mikaelalm.bsky.social & @johansjoberg70.bsky.social

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Gustav's Hand @gustavshand.bsky.social · May 9

Projektets bokbindare, Adam Larsson, mottog idag medalj för nit och redlighet efter 30 år i statlig tjänst 👏👏👏

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Gustav's Hand @gustavshand.bsky.social · May 4

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · May 4

May (Gustav) the fourth (Adolf) be with you!

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Apr 30

Want to see what you can find? 📜

Head over to our @zooniverse.bsky.social site to explore our sixteenth-century wills: www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...

#history #earlymodern #skystorians #citizenscience #crowdsourcing @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social

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The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · Apr 22

I have a book! It is actually real!

A book, or more specifically my doctoral thesis, "Wealth, Consumption, and Industriousness: Evidence from southern Sweden, 1570-1860". The cover is a painting of woman, dressed in a flowing yellow skirt with a pink blouse and white cap, sitting on a green holstered chair resting her eyes next to a spindle with a ball of yarn in her hand. Her foot rests on a foot stool matching the chair she is sitting on, and on the table she is leaning on is a small basket with balls of yarn.

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · Apr 10

Our dear cooperation partners Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith have published their opus magnum on letterlocking: 'Letterlocking. The Hidden History of the Letter' by Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group (MIT Press). Congratulations!

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Historiska Föreningen i Uppsala @hfuppsala.bsky.social · Apr 7

Våren är här!🌞 Dags att fira dess ankomst med ett gediget möte 24 April kl.17:00 på Humanistiska Teatern i Uppsala. Rebecka Lennartsson & Mats Hayen föreläser om projektet "Stadens ansikten" - du vill inte missa det. Vi ses där!🌹

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Gustav's Hand @gustavshand.bsky.social · Apr 7

Excellent lecture today by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social and Rebekah Ahrendt on the Brienne collection and 'Dirty Metadata and Clean Cataloguing'. This was the last lecture organised by the project. It couldn't have had a better ending!

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Gustav's Hand @gustavshand.bsky.social · Apr 1

Our lecture series continues! Welcome to Carolina Rediviva for an exciting talk by @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social & Rebekah Ahrendt.

Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · Apr 1

Alla är välkomna!/Welcome!

libcal.ub.uu.se/event/4355432

Open lecture: Dirty Metadata and Clean Cataloguing – Opportunities and Challenges for Historical Correspondence

Reflecting on the process of cataloguing the Brienne Collection – over 2,000 letters, which ended up in The Hague between 1689 and 1706 – this lecture explores the opportunities...

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · Mar 26

We're off! #esshc2025

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Annika Raapke Öberg @mouseemperor.bsky.social · Mar 20

The @uu.se history students' association invited me as a guest lecturer tonight. Not only were they the sweetest, most engaged audience I've ever had, they also *gave me flowers*. I think I've peaked now, job-wise.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · Mar 16

#ONT, March 16 in 1792, Swedish king Gustav III (1746–1792) was shot and mortally wounded at a masquerade at the Opera in Stockholm.

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Early Modern Marginalia Research Network @emmrn.bsky.social · Jan 27

The EMMRN hosts a peer-to-peer research tool designed to connect people who need photographs of pieces of marginalia with people who can take those photographs. The site also hosts a blog about marginalia and facilitates a network of researchers who use marginalia in their research.

a person 's finger is pointing to a book titled a brief history

ALT: a person 's finger is pointing to a book titled a brief history

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Mari Välimäki @marivalimaki.bsky.social · Mar 14

It has come to my knowledge that the pre-info (incl. table of contents) of Academic Households in #EarlyModern Northern Europe is now available, the actual book will come out after summer!

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Academic Households in Early Modern Northern Europe

This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth- to eighteenth-century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender. During the Middle Ages, Christian scho...

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · Mar 7

My University has left X and joined Bluesky.

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UHIHistory.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social · Feb 27

We are so excited to team up with @insuhi.bsky.social, @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social, HTC & @thinkuhi.bsky.social Literature, & be part of the new MLitt programme, Early Modern European Studies (EMES)!

Enrolments for Sept 2025 and Jan 2026 will open shortly, so visit bit.ly/3EUjymB for more info!

UHI Launches New Early Modern European Studies MLitt

The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, in collaboration with the UHI Centre for History, UHI Archaeology Institute, UHI Highland Theological College and UHI Lit…

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